Red Maple

 The Red Maple is my favourite work by A.Y. Jackson of The Group Of Seven. It dates to 1914, and depicts a scene along a river I know well in Algonquin.

Across the way, a look at some of the other works in this particular space. La Caterina is the title of this circa 1887-89 painting by James Kerr-Lawson.

Here we have Jean Biggar, by George Reid, an 1890 portrait.

Miss Audrey Boller is a portrait by Randolph Hewton, circa 1922-23.

This is Sunrise, Lac Tremblant, by Maurice Cullen, done in 1922.

And this is by George Reid, done in 1890, titled Mortgaging The Homestead.

Moving beyond, we find a large collection of field sketches. These were typical of The Group Of Seven, taking these small canvases into the field and then transferring their ideas onto a larger canvas in the studio. These particular works are by Tom Thomson, a close friend of the members of that group. Thomson was a big influence on them, and vice versa, but died in a drowning accident before they formally became a group. Otherwise it would have been The Group Of Eight.

Here we have Moonlight, a 1913-14 work by Thomson.

J.E.H. MacDonald painted Gleams On The Hills in 1921.